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George F. Burpee was born on January 10, 1860, in Wakefield, Carlton County, New Brunswick.

He was a sawmill owner in Millville, New Brunswick.

In 1881, he married Emma P. Tilley (1863–1953). He died on September 12, 1929, in Centreville, Carleton County, New Brunswick.

Walter H. Burritt was born in Upper Canada of Loyalist parents. From 1831 to 1835 he served a medical apprenticeship with Dr. Basil Church of Merrickville, Upper Canada, and attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Western District, New York in 1834-1835. His son, Horatio Charles Burritt went to Bishop's College in 1859, but transferred to the Medical Faculty of McGill, where he graduated in 1863 as class valedictorian. He served as a medical officer with the Confederate Army in the American Civil War, and later practiced medicine in Ontario.